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Bukov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)

village in Žďár nad Sázavou District of Vysočina region

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ162854 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bukov is a municipality and village in Žďár nad Sázavou District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.

Bukov lies approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) south-east of Žďár nad Sázavou, 47 km (29 mi) east of Jihlava, and 148 km (92 mi) south-east of Prague.

Editorial summary

“Bukov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)” enters the record as village in Žďár nad Sázavou District of Vysočina region. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bukov, Žďár and Sázavou can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 51-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bukov, Žďár and Sázavou.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bukov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bukov, Žďár and Sázavou provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q162854. Authority coordinates are 49.454, 16.224. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bukov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bukov (Žďár nad Sázavou District) primary sources, Bukov (Žďár nad Sázavou District) archive and Bukov research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Bukov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Bukov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.